den·tal pro·phy·lax·is

cleaning

preparation of the clinical environment to remove debris and prevent spread of dust-borne contaminants

cleaning,

v to expunge all residue of prior materials. Heat or steam is required to remove any hint of previous remedies from the receptacles and tools used in the creation of homeopathic or herbal preparations.

den·tal proph·y·lax·is

(den'tăl prō'fi-lak'sis)

Procedures whereby calculus, stains, and other accretions are removed from the crowns and roots of the teeth and the enamel surfaces are polished. Synonym(s): cleaning.

cleaning

1. a major part of sanitation procedures in veterinary preventive medicine because of the heavy contamination of animal accommodation by feces and urine, and in abattoirs because of the rapid accumulation of fat. High pressure cleaning with hot water and detergents is the only practicable procedure but brings its own attendant problems of disposal of effluent.

2. colloquial term for placenta of mare or cow.

Patient discussion about cleaning

Q. How can I "allergy proof" the house? My nephew will be coming to stay with me for a couple of months and he is highly allergic. How can I allergy proof the house so he'll be protected?

He added a little sternly, "Have you forgotten that this is spring cleaning time?

She knew it was useless to say that he had let many spring cleaning times pass.

It is just for spring cleaning time," Jane said, "he wants me always to do his spring cleaning.

Jane is now a common grown-up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly.

While we clean the nozzles, the ultrasonic tank is busy cleaning the retainer plate, which should not take more than an hour or two to remove all traces of degraded plastic, eliminating this worry during assembly.

One of the major trends in the future of building maintenance is "green cleaning"--using environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies, equipment and methodology for the maintenance of New York City's commercial buildings.

Go online and you'll discover there are Web sites devoted to scheduling your cleaning, decluttering your disorganization, making your own cleaning supplies and keeping your house in ``company-ready'' shape all the time.

This Network Admission Control (NAC) appliance integrates within a switching infrastructure to provide a self-contained, rapidly deployable solution for automatically detecting, isolating, and cleaning infected or vulnerable devices that attempt to access the network.

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